The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-16
5sart,r, ftnne, and Gardst,
The Family Doctor.

A teaspoonful of heated camphor is
said to be a curative application for a,
stye on the eyelid.
The effects Of poison ivy may be re-
moved by applying solution of a table,
spoonful OF copperas in & small cup of
hot water.
Buttermilk is now recommended for
the cure OF sallowness produced in the
complexion by advancing age. 1t has
long been popular for the prevention and
cure OF freckles and other injuries to the
skin caused by wind and sun.
For biliousness plain diet of bread,
milk, oatmeal, vegetables and fruit, with
lean meat or fresh fish, is advised by the
Medical and Surgical Journal Exer-
else in the open air helps. Tie victim of
an acute attack will be righted by: First,
abstinence; second, porridge and milk;
third, toast, little meat and ripe fruit,
coming thus gradually to the solid food
again.
"Carbolic acid has been much over.
rated as disinfectant," says Robson
Roose, III. d.. "Ehe spores of the micro
organisms discovered in cases of splenic
fever have been found to be absolutely
unaffected after lying for upward of three
months in per cent solution of car
bolic acid in oil. It has been found that
vaccine matter mixed with carbolic acid
in solution still retains it's efficacy"
Indian corn contains large amount
of nitrogen, has anti-constipatlng quail
ties, is easily assimilated, cheap and very
nutrltive. A doctor of note declares that
course OF Indian meal, in the shape of
johnny cake, hoe cake, corn or pons
bread and mush, relieved by copious
draughts OF pure cows milk, to which, if
inclined to dyspepsia, a little lime water
may be added, will make life, now a
burden, we'll worth the living, and you
need no other treatment to correct your
nervousness, brighten your vision and
give you sweet and peaceful sleep.
The English Sparrow.
The forthcoming report of the depart
ment OF agriculture on the English SPAR
row will be very interesting document.
1t will contain about four hundred print
ed pages, in which will appear the expe-
riences OF about thirty-two hundred peo-
pie with this destructive biped. DR..
Merriam, the ornithologist Of the depart
ment, who has charge of the preparation
OF the report, says that the indictment
against the sparrow is terrible one; and
it has scarcely friend in the whole
country. Farmers who devote their time
to the cultivation of grain, report that
the sparrows, wherever they are thick, do
frlghtful damage to cereals. Market
gardeners and the raisers OF small fruit,
in the vicinity of cities, say, that, since
sparrows began to multiply, the profits
of market gardening have almost van
ished. The only known use for the spar
row is as a substitute for reed birds One
man III Albany, N. Y, reports that he sells
hundreds OF dozens of sparrows every
month to the restaurants of that city for
reed-birds. They make excellent table,
birds.
Fruit Honey.
1 had been reading of the Swiss pear
honey and the ambition seized me TO at
tempt something OF the kind at home.
The baskets of glowing sheldon pears in
the pantry were picture, but vanish
ing one, as they were melting with ripe.
ness. Three quarts of pear juice were
soon simmering in the stone pot in the
oven. ALI night they slowly reduced, and
In the forenoon an hours boiling brought
them to a syrup or honey which sur
passed al expectations. The three quarts
Of pear juice yielded nearly quart OF
delicious honey, pale, clear, sweet, with a
fruity flavor, which [ won't call an i'm
provement ON that from the hives, but is
an agreeable variety from it. Early pears
are very rich In sugar, and it may be
profitable to fix their transient sweetness
in this way. 1t has kept three months
from the making, unsealed, and the favor
Is even better than at first. 1t was clsri-
fed by straining the juice first through
linen cheese cloth, then through flannel,
and removing few spoonfuls of froth in
boiling. Not grain OF sugar was put
in. The honey was the pure juice and
sweetness OF the fruit. This pear honey
comes in very nicely at the close OF sum-
mer, and furnishes one OF those stand -bys
Of the store closet which are such great
helps to the housekeeper, who likes to
keep up good table. An American
breakfast in autumn, with delicate Adj
rondack griddle cakes, or the first buck.
wheat cakes and pear honey finishes very
nicely. l do like to see people eat with
relish and thankfulness all the good
things OF the season as time caters for
us with change and variety. 1t is dis
couraging to housekeeper who takes
pride in her business to sit down at table
with lot OF people who are too careless
of their health to have an appetite, and
must pick trile here, and deny them
selves there, for fear of Engagements,
and eat in an arid toast-and. egg fashion
the year round.-From Foreign Fruit
Honey" in Vick's Magazine for july.
Some Useful Knowledge.
To RemoVe Ink Stains.-Ink stains are